Annecdotal evidence is just that annecdotal. The amount of returns on the Aspire Linux netobooks however is enough to tell you that Linux still isn't at the user-friendly stage of Windows or OS X. The minute you tell someone that in order to do a routine option you've got to go command line bashing is enough of a barrier for most consumers.
... Hollywood, the movie industry the folks that invented different DVD regions in order to control worldwide distribution for maximum profit. In that context it's not a surprising move at all.
It's probably likely that the problems he was having in this case was the tipping point of a long series of personal annoyances. What this story seems to illustrate is that Linux is still in the rough Harley Davidson stage, in that almost every Harley Davidson owner I ever met was a fairly decent mechanic as the cycles are famous for requiring a lot of mechanic knowhow.
One respondent's answer in brief was "compile your own". While this works for a certain group of user, there are a lot of users which it won't. With Mac OSX now having a lot more common with the 'Nix OS's and featuring software which simply "just works". I can understand why he finally made the switch. (OS X even has it's own versions of WINE working for it now that it's main architecture is Intel based.) and OS X has shed most of what made the original Mac OS such a hostile environment to develop for, as seen from the explosion open source code for the platform.
"Stuff just works" is a good benchmark on the maturity of an OS as a user system for other than "Harley Davidson home mechanics." OS X is a good example of that benchmark as a UNIX type OS you can give your grandmother to use. Linux's progress towards that goal has slowed down considerably if not stopped altogether.
Britain does not have the American ideal where individualism is given free reign to run over public and private sensibility. If the neighborhood does not wish itself to be publicly displayed, (and unlike the United States they DO have more commonly neighborhoods instead of just streets) than the wishes of the community should be honored and the Googlecar should not return.
The Android store and the App Store at the moment serve two different markets. Android phone users and IPhone users. The store that the user would choose is determined by the phone in posession. Since neither store can offer anything to users of the other kind of phone the title is misleading, or at least premature.
And what percentage of your music is paid for? I see a lot of FUD thrown up on how artists don't get compensated but it sounds kind of hollow coming from a group of people that's been stealing music anyway. Where was all the concern about "artist compensation" before enforcement started getting serious?
I never said that the speed of technological advance was influenced by the closure of the space program, I'm just pointing out that technological advance was not dependent upon it.
Humanity started surpassing the planet's "natural" ability to suppport it when we gave up hunter/gathering for farms and cities.
An "Apollo" scale project devoted to Earthside products has the following superiority over manned space flight. While it may not be as flashy as the Apollo Moon Landing, I'd say that Habitats for Humanity, over the long term generated far more hope than a one-time moon shot, or even the distant promises of lunar colonisation.
1. The investment is immediate and not reflected in large pieces of hardware which are used once than thrown away. The Space Shuttle was an epic failure to try to overcome that weakness.
2. Full participation is open to a far greater number than a couple of dozen who actually get to "go out there".
3. Spinoff technology produced is more relevant to the needs of the project than being of merely incidental benefit.
What we need are Apollo projects on the Earth and environment, a reformation of our societies into long-term, stable, sustainable constructs. A concentration on manned space travel comes at the cost of critically draining funds for the useful part of it, the unmanned space sciences.
Authors of the mid 20th century and earlier used to trumpet the belief that the true maturation of a species would be demonstrated by it's ability to send spaceships into the beyond.
I on the other hand would argue that true maturation for the species is the same as for the individual, a recognition of when it is the time to set aside childish amusements and get to the real work of living in both onself and as a member of the larger world we find ourselves in. Despite the dramatic photographs such as Earthrise taken from the Apollo craft, space enthuisasts continue to show a disregard for the long term future of the planet itself, believing they can write it off by seeking an escape from it's problems in the great darkness of space. But if you can't live on this planet, where can you live?
So I close with a variation from the closing line of "When the Earth Stood Still"
All this world, or nothing. The choice is yours.
What inspires hope for the wretched on this planet is food on the table today with the promise that there will be food tomorrow. They don't have computers to blog about Mars, or televisons to watch moon landings. And the pace of technological advance did not slow down with the receding of the space program, it sped up.
Space is not the future for mankind. It can be PART of the future as there useful and important things to learn, but dreams of space are for those who have given up on thier world, blind to the fact that there is no other place for us.
Because we can't duplicate the one example of a working fusion reactor in this Solar System, the Sun. The only workable method, such as that started by the Tokamak, promises so low a density, you'd be talking about a mammmoth power plant, far larger than anything we'd every tried to build. On that scale it's a massive heat pollution and global warming engine in the making.
The Sun by the way is an extremely low density heat engine for it's size. A Human Body scaled up to the size of the Sun would emit far more heat.
That said, we do need intensive moves in not only energy research, but a complete restructure in the ways we use it, and a serious consideration on how in the long term we stop rhe runaway growth in demand.
Boosted lightsail journes are extremely one way trips. And while lightsails may get you from one star to another, there's still the tricky problem of landing and taking off of planets still requires the brute force of a major rocket. Forward fudged things by creating low mass worlds for his one way volunteers to cavort in.
Barnard's Star really doesn't look like the kind of place to spend the rest of an abbreviated lifespan, does it?
It's a concept that points away but the limitatins hammered by physics don't really provide for any real practical star travel beyond the capabilities stated.
The issue is not so much elmination of poverty, as opposed to the elimination of abject misery, a far more difficult and grander undertaking than the stunts of manned spaceflight. I can't think of a more worthy goal if you're looking for something for the race to strive for.
Manned spaceflight while exciting is ultimate a sterile end, an empty goal. The universe is too large, the distances too vast, our lifetimes too short for it to produce anything meaningful.
The installation of this virus still requires the user to authorise it to do so by entering an admin password. It's far different than many Windows worms which can infect simply by the built-in autorun feature of windows which will feed a worm into your machine as soon as you stick in a USB or floppy inside your box.
Macs do have protections from viruses that Windows does not, but like any protection, if you give the vampire entrance, it's all over.
Maybe you don't give a damm, but that's the problem, a lot of our energy and environmental issues are caused by the summ actions of a large segment "which doesn't give a damm." Thar large segement is the major contributoer to energy comsumption, global warming, and the continued dependence of energy suppliers which really don't have reason to like us much.
Since you can't be bothered to "give a damm", for the sake of human civilisation, some folks in charge have better.
Because the realities of peak oil, their economic and political effects don't really care whether you "give a damm" or not.
Actually as I understand it, both Apple and Microsoft pay a licensing fee to Xerox who came up with the whole mouse and windows thing. I remember when they were going after Commodore to pay it's share for the Amiga. CBM however self-destructed before anything was made of it.
They're not "bricking" machines. Thier code was never sold on the premise that it would work with non-Apple hardware, and they are NOT obligated to support wildjack hijacking of their code. It is on Psytar and other companies onus to cope with Apple's updates, not the other way around.
This is going to get about as far as the legal attempts to decertify Obama's election by attacking his citzenship status. Mac OS is not only protected by copyright, it's also a registered trademark, has a boatload of patented code inside.
I'm not exactly sure what they hope to gain with this. Apple has the lawyers and has the financial war chest so trying to outlast them in court isn't going to go anywhere.
Scientists in direct competition with each other tend not to share very much until they're ready to publish.
And a lot of things in medicine are locked down as intellectual property by the corporate sponsors who pay for research, even if that research is being done on a public university.
It's not all sweetness and sharing there.
That's a distortion of the fact. Lori Drew isn't ending up in jail because she created a false MySpace persona. She's ending up in jail because her actions at the very least were a source of major emotional trauma and are a major part of the reason for another's death.
That brings up another point. Before Dolly was cloned there were hundreds of failures. What do you do with a hundred or more "Failed" Human beings? Cloned organisms are also far more susceptible than normal to disorders that result from genetic errors like cancer.
Ethically a line should be drawn. No doubt however there will be those caring for nothing but ambition that will cross it.
Apple had it's own flirtation with AIX way back in the old pre OSX days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Network_Server in those machines known as the Apple Network Server. There were folks who got them to run Yellow Dog Linux, but I recall that as being a real project to do. They were the last non-Macintosh computers to be made.
If you're actually downloading on the average 1500 images a day from other users, it's [b]extremely unlikely[/b] that you're not downloading material which is either copyrighted or derivative work which is also subject to copyright restrictions.
We allow the French to legislate on this matter for the same reason American companies expect the French to honor our copyrights and in the main they do.
Going after Sourceforge makes a lot of sense, Sourceforge is a major access source of software like this.
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Annecdotal evidence is just that annecdotal. The amount of returns on the Aspire Linux netobooks however is enough to tell you that Linux still isn't at the user-friendly stage of Windows or OS X. The minute you tell someone that in order to do a routine option you've got to go command line bashing is enough of a barrier for most consumers.
... Hollywood, the movie industry the folks that invented different DVD regions in order to control worldwide distribution for maximum profit. In that context it's not a surprising move at all.
It's probably likely that the problems he was having in this case was the tipping point of a long series of personal annoyances. What this story seems to illustrate is that Linux is still in the rough Harley Davidson stage, in that almost every Harley Davidson owner I ever met was a fairly decent mechanic as the cycles are famous for requiring a lot of mechanic knowhow. One respondent's answer in brief was "compile your own". While this works for a certain group of user, there are a lot of users which it won't. With Mac OSX now having a lot more common with the 'Nix OS's and featuring software which simply "just works". I can understand why he finally made the switch. (OS X even has it's own versions of WINE working for it now that it's main architecture is Intel based.) and OS X has shed most of what made the original Mac OS such a hostile environment to develop for, as seen from the explosion open source code for the platform. "Stuff just works" is a good benchmark on the maturity of an OS as a user system for other than "Harley Davidson home mechanics." OS X is a good example of that benchmark as a UNIX type OS you can give your grandmother to use. Linux's progress towards that goal has slowed down considerably if not stopped altogether.
Britain does not have the American ideal where individualism is given free reign to run over public and private sensibility. If the neighborhood does not wish itself to be publicly displayed, (and unlike the United States they DO have more commonly neighborhoods instead of just streets) than the wishes of the community should be honored and the Googlecar should not return.
And what percentage of pirates actually buy the thing they steal? Lets get real here.
Slashdot is supposed to be useful?
The Android store and the App Store at the moment serve two different markets. Android phone users and IPhone users. The store that the user would choose is determined by the phone in posession. Since neither store can offer anything to users of the other kind of phone the title is misleading, or at least premature.
And what percentage of your music is paid for? I see a lot of FUD thrown up on how artists don't get compensated but it sounds kind of hollow coming from a group of people that's been stealing music anyway. Where was all the concern about "artist compensation" before enforcement started getting serious?
I never said that the speed of technological advance was influenced by the closure of the space program, I'm just pointing out that technological advance was not dependent upon it. Humanity started surpassing the planet's "natural" ability to suppport it when we gave up hunter/gathering for farms and cities. An "Apollo" scale project devoted to Earthside products has the following superiority over manned space flight. While it may not be as flashy as the Apollo Moon Landing, I'd say that Habitats for Humanity, over the long term generated far more hope than a one-time moon shot, or even the distant promises of lunar colonisation. 1. The investment is immediate and not reflected in large pieces of hardware which are used once than thrown away. The Space Shuttle was an epic failure to try to overcome that weakness. 2. Full participation is open to a far greater number than a couple of dozen who actually get to "go out there". 3. Spinoff technology produced is more relevant to the needs of the project than being of merely incidental benefit. What we need are Apollo projects on the Earth and environment, a reformation of our societies into long-term, stable, sustainable constructs. A concentration on manned space travel comes at the cost of critically draining funds for the useful part of it, the unmanned space sciences. Authors of the mid 20th century and earlier used to trumpet the belief that the true maturation of a species would be demonstrated by it's ability to send spaceships into the beyond. I on the other hand would argue that true maturation for the species is the same as for the individual, a recognition of when it is the time to set aside childish amusements and get to the real work of living in both onself and as a member of the larger world we find ourselves in. Despite the dramatic photographs such as Earthrise taken from the Apollo craft, space enthuisasts continue to show a disregard for the long term future of the planet itself, believing they can write it off by seeking an escape from it's problems in the great darkness of space. But if you can't live on this planet, where can you live? So I close with a variation from the closing line of "When the Earth Stood Still" All this world, or nothing. The choice is yours.
What inspires hope for the wretched on this planet is food on the table today with the promise that there will be food tomorrow. They don't have computers to blog about Mars, or televisons to watch moon landings. And the pace of technological advance did not slow down with the receding of the space program, it sped up. Space is not the future for mankind. It can be PART of the future as there useful and important things to learn, but dreams of space are for those who have given up on thier world, blind to the fact that there is no other place for us.
Because we can't duplicate the one example of a working fusion reactor in this Solar System, the Sun. The only workable method, such as that started by the Tokamak, promises so low a density, you'd be talking about a mammmoth power plant, far larger than anything we'd every tried to build. On that scale it's a massive heat pollution and global warming engine in the making. The Sun by the way is an extremely low density heat engine for it's size. A Human Body scaled up to the size of the Sun would emit far more heat. That said, we do need intensive moves in not only energy research, but a complete restructure in the ways we use it, and a serious consideration on how in the long term we stop rhe runaway growth in demand.
Boosted lightsail journes are extremely one way trips. And while lightsails may get you from one star to another, there's still the tricky problem of landing and taking off of planets still requires the brute force of a major rocket. Forward fudged things by creating low mass worlds for his one way volunteers to cavort in. Barnard's Star really doesn't look like the kind of place to spend the rest of an abbreviated lifespan, does it? It's a concept that points away but the limitatins hammered by physics don't really provide for any real practical star travel beyond the capabilities stated.
The issue is not so much elmination of poverty, as opposed to the elimination of abject misery, a far more difficult and grander undertaking than the stunts of manned spaceflight. I can't think of a more worthy goal if you're looking for something for the race to strive for. Manned spaceflight while exciting is ultimate a sterile end, an empty goal. The universe is too large, the distances too vast, our lifetimes too short for it to produce anything meaningful.
The installation of this virus still requires the user to authorise it to do so by entering an admin password. It's far different than many Windows worms which can infect simply by the built-in autorun feature of windows which will feed a worm into your machine as soon as you stick in a USB or floppy inside your box. Macs do have protections from viruses that Windows does not, but like any protection, if you give the vampire entrance, it's all over.
Maybe you don't give a damm, but that's the problem, a lot of our energy and environmental issues are caused by the summ actions of a large segment "which doesn't give a damm." Thar large segement is the major contributoer to energy comsumption, global warming, and the continued dependence of energy suppliers which really don't have reason to like us much. Since you can't be bothered to "give a damm", for the sake of human civilisation, some folks in charge have better. Because the realities of peak oil, their economic and political effects don't really care whether you "give a damm" or not.
Actually as I understand it, both Apple and Microsoft pay a licensing fee to Xerox who came up with the whole mouse and windows thing. I remember when they were going after Commodore to pay it's share for the Amiga. CBM however self-destructed before anything was made of it.
They're not "bricking" machines. Thier code was never sold on the premise that it would work with non-Apple hardware, and they are NOT obligated to support wildjack hijacking of their code. It is on Psytar and other companies onus to cope with Apple's updates, not the other way around.
This is going to get about as far as the legal attempts to decertify Obama's election by attacking his citzenship status. Mac OS is not only protected by copyright, it's also a registered trademark, has a boatload of patented code inside. I'm not exactly sure what they hope to gain with this. Apple has the lawyers and has the financial war chest so trying to outlast them in court isn't going to go anywhere.
Scientists in direct competition with each other tend not to share very much until they're ready to publish. And a lot of things in medicine are locked down as intellectual property by the corporate sponsors who pay for research, even if that research is being done on a public university. It's not all sweetness and sharing there.
That's a distortion of the fact. Lori Drew isn't ending up in jail because she created a false MySpace persona. She's ending up in jail because her actions at the very least were a source of major emotional trauma and are a major part of the reason for another's death.
That brings up another point. Before Dolly was cloned there were hundreds of failures. What do you do with a hundred or more "Failed" Human beings? Cloned organisms are also far more susceptible than normal to disorders that result from genetic errors like cancer. Ethically a line should be drawn. No doubt however there will be those caring for nothing but ambition that will cross it.
Apple had it's own flirtation with AIX way back in the old pre OSX days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Network_Server in those machines known as the Apple Network Server. There were folks who got them to run Yellow Dog Linux, but I recall that as being a real project to do. They were the last non-Macintosh computers to be made.
If you're actually downloading on the average 1500 images a day from other users, it's [b]extremely unlikely[/b] that you're not downloading material which is either copyrighted or derivative work which is also subject to copyright restrictions.
We allow the French to legislate on this matter for the same reason American companies expect the French to honor our copyrights and in the main they do.
Going after Sourceforge makes a lot of sense, Sourceforge is a major access source of software like this.
Perhaps you can. The Yellow Dog kit however was put together specifically for the PS3.
Terrasoft solutions, the makers of Yellow Dog Linux sell the Linux kit for the PlayStation 3.